As already mentioned yesterday, the Rocks’n’Diamonds web forum
also needed an update to play well with modern devices. I’ve upgraded to the
latest stable release of the forum software, and it should now look and work
fine also with tablets and smartphones.

As this web site was created in the last century
(in November 1998, to be precise), it’s probably time
for a little redesign after those ~18 years, especially as the old version
did not work well on tablets and smartphones. So after some fiddling around
with current HTML and CSS (the old site was built with historic HTML 3.2,
which was already a bit outdated at the time of the site’s creation), this
redesign should work reasonably well with most systems and devices around
in 2016 (just as Rocks’n’Diamonds itself has always tried to support most
systems and devices in the past decades).

I’ve used Jekyll to rebuild the site, which was
quite some fun after all. (The old site used a similar approach I wrote in
Perl, which had less features, but was a lot faster than this Ruby stuff.)

That said, the next redesign of this site, keeping my time schedule, should
then be around November 2034. ;-)